Ryan Ashford

pr-editor, wr-ector, desi-ngineer

I've been in the film/video world for most of my life. I love the way that motion pictures can communicate with people's minds and emotions. I'm from Northern California and I live in Southern California. I started out in narrative cinema and now I work in advertising. I also compose and produce immersive audio musical experiences.

This is true and it can be a little annoying to wait for a while after updates have been released until there is enough information from the hackintosh community about it's affects on your hardware setup. However, having upgradability options for key hardware components can be worth the nuisance if you watch your step. I have actually had more issues on the Mac Pro than the Hackintosh in the last year now that I follow the "wait and see" rule.

My hackintosh is very stable under heavy use. I have a fully loaded 12-core Mac Pro with dual D700's at work which performs well using Premiere and After Effects but my hack at home seems to match that performance pretty well with only 4-cores and a single CUDA GPU. Having been able to upgrade my GPU and CPU as needed over the last few years has allowed me to get a lot more value out of that machine than I could get out of a Mac Pro.

Now I only wish that the current batch of powerful gaming laptops could be hacked in the same fashion but Optimus implementation is still entirely prohibitive.

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